A new sauropterygian reptile with plesiosaurian affinity from the late triassic of Italy

Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 207-225

  Dalla Vecchia, Fabio M ^a  

^a Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale   (Italy)

Author keywords

Early Carnian; Eusauropterygia; Late Triassic; Northeastern Italy; Pistosauria; Plesiosauria; Sauropterygia

Indexed keywords

FOSSIL RECORD; NEW RECORD; NEW TAXON; REPTILE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TRIASSIC;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

ANISIA; MIRABILIS; NOTHOSAURIA; PLESIOSAURIA; PYRUS COMMUNIS; REPTILIA; SAUROPTERYGIA;

EID: 33748704925     PISSN: 00356883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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